Sunday, February 24, 2008

In-Progress At Fontana: "NASCAR RaceDay" On SPEED

There are certainly a lot of issues to be explained once the veteran RaceDay team takes the air at 1:30PM Eastern Time. They will certainly give us the first glimpse of the overall track conditions.

NASCAR Now came up short earlier in the day, despite the fact that Nicole Manske was on-site. Fans should have been made aware of what happened overnight, after the ESPN telecast went off the air.

RaceDay will again feature John Roberts as host, with Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace alongside. Wendy Venturini will be reporting from the garage, and Hermie Sadler will be along with track description and race condition updates. Rutledge Wood is still defining his role on this series, and continues to be placed in a wide variety of situations by the Producer.

The SPEED Stage location was tough for Steve Byrnes and John Roberts on Saturday, and many posters have been telling The Daly Planet that the rain has continued all night long. We will get our first glimpse at what the day has in store when RaceDay hits the air at 1:30PM Eastern Time for a full two hours.

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Thank you and your fellow ham radio operator for the updates since we're not getting as much as I thought from SPEED, with less than 90 minutes until they switch to pre-race on FOX.

I'm surprised they waited 20-25 minutes in to give a forecast. They should have done that right off the top, especially since there are spots of rain on the cameras.

Wish they could have interviewed a NASCAR official before the driver's meeting to get an idea of plans for today. (jayski says race start originally scheduled for 4, so meeting would be at 2.) Maybe after.

Its nice that the guys on TV are optimistic about getting the race in. But the fact is, today is pretty much a total washout. The reason they tell us they are optimistic is too keep viewers watching.

NASCAR doesn't runr aces in rain delay late at night like they use to. If it is still raining and the track isn't near dry by 6 PM ET, the race will most likely be canceled. And it looks like it will be unfortunatly.

The Cup race is "the show" so definitely Nascar will do whatever they can to get that race in today. But it's not even noon on the west coast yet. They have 8 or 9 hrs today to get a race started if they want to finish by midnite PT.

Lets get realistic. Even if it does stop raining. They still have to dry the track and there is a chance of showers all day. We saw this Friday and Saturday. The track is almost dry and another light shower ruins everything.

That is pretty much today's setup. We have seen this before. NASCAR says they will wait as long as they can, but the race is always eventually postponed.